Designed to improve spelling and reading skills and serving as a complement to the ACTION READING Fast Track Fundamentals learn-to-read program, "Spell Power" presents a thorough program for success in spelling, reading, and writing. Written for learners from ages 6 to 99, it strengthens the connection between reading and spelling as learners…

Distance learning is an excellent method of teaching adult learners because they need flexibility to contend with competing priorities. Adult learning is not without problems, however, such as loss of motivation because of lack of face-to-face contact with teachers and peers, potentially prohibitive start-up costs, and lack of faculty support. In…

This book presents the lives, stories, and photographs of Canadian adults who are literacy learners. Each of the seven features in the book tells one aspect of Canada's literacy story. "Orval: The Stories of Orval Daugherty," includes: "Time is Short" (Bounchanh Chanthavimone); "Flash Back" (Wendi Rooks); "The…

In 1998, Virginia's Quality Indicators and Core Standards provided a new measure for documenting educational gains for adults who are, according to the Performance Standard for Measure 3, "pursuing learning projects based on their individual goals and/or objectives." These adults are considered "project learners." Their…

This paper presents the most current thinking on how to best structure adult learning programs, noting that adult learners demand a convenient program which is specially designed with their learning style in mind. They learn best in an interactive format with heavy emphasis on the practical application of their learning. The paper discusses the…

Reports a study of male college freshmen majoring in physical education indicating that as high school students they tended to participate in team activities, but when asked what they were interested in learning as new activities, they preferred the individual activities that could be participated in during later years. (TO)

Age differences in two groups (20-23 years, and 49-65 years) were investigated for the speed of retrieval in both primary and secondary memories. Discussion centered on the role that the older subjects slowed retrieval searches play in their more general learning-memory deficit. (DP)

How specific principles of adult learning can be applied to continuing education for nurses. (SP)

Outlines training procedures for adult trainees and students at the Denver Board of Water Commissioners and Regis College. (RK)

Author decries music education aimed only at producing professional performers, noting the pleasure many adults have in playing an instrument or singing simply as an avocation. He suggests revising music education to enable the non-professional to continue in music as hobby more easily. (PD)

Summarizes several studies over the past 7 years of the deliberate learning efforts made by men and women. Reports on what and why adults learn, how they learn, what help they obtain, and how much time they spend learning. (Author/LF)

The nature and rate of social change determine the role, content and forms of adult education. For this purpose pertinent information is needed, and can only be achieved if an International Clearing Center for Adult Education (ICCAE) is formed. (RB)

A brief description of the Adult Learning Laboratory which was established at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, for continuing education programs of the American College of Life Underwriters. (AK)

Alaska nurses who participated in self-directed continuing education courses were surveyed to determine what factors encouraged their participation. The strongest factors reported were personal satisfaction and need to update knowledge. Personal motivation and personal study habits appeared to be paramount in successful course completion. (SK)